HALIFAX – RTDNA Canada recognized the East Region winners of the RTDNA Awards of Excellence on Saturday, honouring the best journalists, programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in radio, television and digital.
The East Region winners will now compete with winners from the West, Prairie and Central regions for the best of the best, the National Awards, which will be announced at the RTDNA Canada 2019 National Conference & Awards Gala scheduled for May 10-11, 2019 at the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto.
The 2019 East Region winners are:
Digital
Best Podcast
CBC New Brunswick – The Hook, An Original Podcast Series
Breaking News – Charlie Edwards…
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Seems likely we’ll eventually see it from the Canadian X1 licencees
PHILADELPHIA – This week Comcast launched Xfinity Flex, a new $5/mo. service which provides Xfinity Internet-only customers the ability to stream thousands of free movies and TV shows as well as use their television and voice control to manage all connected devices in their home.
Xfinity Flex comes with an Internet-connected, 4K HDR streaming TV device, Comcast’s award-winning voice remote, one integrated guide for accessing popular streaming video and music choices, as well as Comcast’s home Wi-Fi, mobile, security, and automation services.
Plus, having that extra little box in an Internet-only…
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Blue Jays: Pinoy Edition returns to OMNI Television, ICI Television Quebec, every Sunday
TORONTO – Spring is in the air and Rogers’ Sportsnet will once again offer extensive Toronto Blue Jays coverage on TV, radio and digitally.
All 162 Blue Jays games will be available on Sportsnet, Sportsnet One, SN Now and the Sportsnet Radio Network. The 2019 Blue Jays campaign gets underway on Thursday, March 28 with the season opener against the Detroit Tigers at 3:30 PM ET / 12:30 PM PT.
“We recognize that Blue Jays fans are hungry for unique content on a variety of platforms,” said Sportsnet president Bart…
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CUPERTINO, CA – Apple’s new video subscription service Apple TV+ will launch this fall in over 100 countries including Canada, the tech giant said Monday from a star-studded event at the Steve Jobs Theater.
The ad-free service will sit inside a revamped Apple TV app and become “the new home for the world’s most creative storytellers,” hopes the company, and include original shows, movies and documentaries from the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Octavia Spencer, J.J. Abrams, Jason Momoa, M. Night Shyamalan, Jon M. Chu and Sesame Street Workshop (whose first…
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OTTAWA – The NDP has kicked off a new policy platform vowing to push the Feds to lower cellular fees and boost broadband coverage “for all Canadians”.
On Friday, the party launched a new site asking Canadians to share their “nightmare stories” of high cell phone and internet bills. Reiterating the “Canadians pay some of the highest prices in the world” lament, the site says that “Canadians deserve leaders who will use every tool available to make life more affordable”.
“For decades, Liberal and Conservative governments have left cell phone and internet companies with very little regulation,” continues the site. “The…
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Upgrades wireless service in Ottawa, Guelph
TORONTO – Rogers has announced plans to invest $100 million in its wireless network over five years to connect more than 1,000 kilometres of unserved highway corridors in rural and remote corridors across Canada.
The planned investment will be aided by the federal government’s Accelerated Investment Incentive for telecommunications equipment, announced in the 2018 fall economic statement, the Toronto-based communications giant said late Tuesday. Rogers identified areas such as Route 245 in Antigonish, NS and Highway 5a in Kamloops, BC, adding that more locations will be announced in the coming months.
The move will also…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has decided against issuing a call for new radio stations to serve Timmins after finding that the market cannot sustain an additional commercial radio station at this time.
Located in northeastern Ontario approximately 280 kilometers north of Sudbury, the Timmins radio market is currently served by four commercial FM radio stations: the English-language stations CJQQ-FM and CKGB-FM, operated by Rogers Media; the English-language station CHMT-FM, operated by Vista; and the French-language station CHYK-FM, operated by LE5 Communications. It is also served by the Indigenous station CJWT-FM, operated by Wawatay Native Communications Society, as well as rebroadcasting…
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BURBANK, CA and NEW YORK – The Walt Disney Company officially closed its $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox (21CF) on Wednesday.
The deal will see Disney gobble up film production businesses including Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Family and Fox Animation; Fox’s television creative units, Twentieth Century Fox Television, FX Productions and Fox21; FX Networks; National Geographic Partners; Fox Networks Group International; Star India; and Fox’s interests in Hulu, Tata Sky and Endemol Shine Group.
It excludes 21CF’s news, sports and broadcast businesses, including the FOX News Channel, FOX Business Network, FOX Broadcasting Company,…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media is officially out of the magazine publishing business after announcing Wednesday that it is selling all seven of its consumer print and digital magazine brands to St. Joseph Communications (SJC).
The deal includes Maclean’s, Chatelaine (English and French), Today’s Parent, Hello! Canada, as well as digital publications Flare and Canadian Business, plus its custom content business. Financial terms of the acquisition, which is scheduled to close next month, were not publicly disclosed.
All current Rogers Media Publishing employees will be offered employment through the deal.
“It was a difficult decision, but one we believe is right as we…
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WE’VE ALL HEARD THE conventional wisdom which says live sports is one of the last remaining mass audience attractions for linear TV – and that it will help retain a large chunk Canadian households opting for a subscription TV service.
Indeed, according to a new report from Winnipeg’s Communications Management Inc., TV companies and some streamers believe this in their bones, as evidenced by massive increases in spending on sports rights the past few years.
In fact, with the myriad ways sports is delivered, “the many emerging options for the delivery of video programming to consumers has also increased demand, with…
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